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Humanist Canada activities. 

Introducing our new Humanist Canada Calendar.   Save the link and quickly confirm your events or meeting times.  So much happening! 

Humanist Canada Event Calendar 

This year's Human Light hosts, Ruth McGregor and Louis O'Reilly, invite you to save the date and plan to join us for our annual heartfelt celebration.

The evening will begin with our virtual cocktail hour and personal candle lighting.  Please have your drink ready for toasting and your candle ready for lighting! 

As many of us know ritual in our lives help us understand change - to celebrate or to accept.  We feel that we all can all benefit from bringing ritual into our lives so we have invited Megan Sheldon of Be Ceremonial to be with us tonight.

Megan Sheldon is a cultural mythologist, humanist celebrant and end-of-life doula. Megan will lead us in an exercise to co-create our own rituals to acknowledge the end of the year. She'll also create space for members to connect, share and set intentions for the year to come as we look to a new year for Humanist Canada!

Register Here

New Member Orientation 

Thursday, January 15th at 7pm EST

To our new members:  We would like to personally welcome you to Humanist Canada. We will review all of our member benefits, tour your member portal and answer your questions. If you are interested in becoming an officiant we will answer all of these questions at the end of the call.

Register Here (a reminder will be sent on the day of the event) 

End of Life Ceremonies ~ A Masterclass

Join Megan Sheldon, co-founder of Be Ceremonial, for this unique opportunity to consider the role of ritual and ceremony at the end of life. Megan is a cultural mythologist, humanist celebrant and end-of-life doula who has curated hundreds of ceremonies across the lifecycle. 

During this 3-hour interactive workshop, Megan will introduce you to the essential elements of ceremony and ritual design. She will also explore the visible and invisible moments that surround the end of life, and the many opportunities to weave ceremony into those moments. 

Together you will learn how to craft and convene an end-of-life ceremony, while also considering your own relationship with grief and loss rituals. Some of the ceremonies you'll explore include: 

• Terminal Diagnosis 
• Living Funerals
• MAiD Ceremonies
• Funerals, Memorials & Celebrations of Life
• Ash Scattering & Remembrance Ceremonies
• Death Anniversaries & Silent Thresholds

When: Saturday, February 1st 2025

Time: 9am - 12pm PST / 12pm - 3pm EST

Cost: $90 

How:  Enroll

Where: A Zoom link will be sent to all registrants

Who: Officiants, chaplains, anyone interested in wishing to perform or gain a deeper understanding of end of life ceremonies

*This workshop will be recorded and sent to all registrants the following day if you can't join live.

Members Connect moves to Thursday evenings 

Please note that our popular Members Connect zoom open chat is moving to Thursdays beginning in January 2025.  The new format will run from 6pm to 8pm - drop in as you can, as long as you can! Please look to your member portal for the link.  All members are welcome! 

Are you interested in becoming a Humanist Officiant in Ontario? 

If you are interested in becoming a Humanist Canada Officiant please visit this link to access the application and to learn more about the process. 

Officiant Application Process

Announcing our first Humanist Canada poetry contest! 

Humanism for Humanity

LAST CALL FOR ENTRIES 

Click link for more details..... Three prize levels and the winning entries will appear on all of the Humanist Canada platforms.   Last call - deadline is November 30, 2024. 

Humanist Canada Poetry Contest 

Our Two Step Plan to Building a Community of Humanists Close to You 

1. Plan a dinner at a public restaurant, art gallery tour, pub night, any event which interests you.
2. Tell us.  We will share your plan with others in your area. 

Our local member gatherings are informal meetings of humanists - a simple idea with big results. Community!  

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A little Sunday reading .... Globe and Mail: How we can make MAID meaningful

And listening.....

At a time when we're more connected than ever, why does it seem like we can barely talk to each other? That’s one of the questions driving Ian Williams’ new Massey Lectures, What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversations in Our Time. “It seems incredibly urgent these days, with increasing polarization and online forms of talking," Williams says. In this series of lectures, which he delivered across Canada this past fall, the award-winning author and poet explores what makes a good conversation, and how to connect with strangers even when you disagree with them — leaving space to maybe even change your mind. He also explains why sometimes the most important part of a conversation is silence. 

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